Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor – Episode 1
There are several moments that are pretty unpleasant, but frankly, if any AniFem readers make it past the changing room scene I suspect it’ll be for morbid curiosity and/or snarky tweets alone.
There are several moments that are pretty unpleasant, but frankly, if any AniFem readers make it past the changing room scene I suspect it’ll be for morbid curiosity and/or snarky tweets alone.
AniFem readers: this is probably not one for you.
It’s visually interesting but heartless, and I’m not sure who will love it.
The most important thing to understand about Alice & Zoroku is that it is two different shows, and the success with which it combines the two is debatable.
These two episodes are action packed, with just enough exposition to be intriguing and a decently balanced mix of gender and power dynamics. I look forward to the next one already.
We’d been talking internally about our feminist recommendations of 2016, and some of the team wanted to go into a bit more detail on some of their favorites.
I have never found a season as disheartening as this one.
This series is dark, both literally and in subject matter, and there is little reprieve until the very end.
This was an unexpected pleasure, a great example of aiming to do something simple and doing it well.
Scum’s Wish is a story of complicated love and sexuality, particularly the sexuality of young women, and the connections between sexuality, desirability and power in the world.
I really, really enjoyed this show. It was headed straight for my top three of the season – until I hit one scene, which is so problematic I need to break it down in detail.
The Hand Shakers story is all scaffolding to prop up the premise: a teenage boy must keep hold of a pretty young girl’s hand at all times. At all times.
My reaction at the end of this episode was “I have no idea what it’s about, but I like it!”
On the one hand, women not feeling the need to conform to social expectations of femininity is a good thing! On the other hand, when trash characters reject gender restrictions they also reject politeness, compassion, and decency.
It’s worth another episode, if you like the premise and can make it past Fanservice-sensei.
There was a way to approach this concept as pure satire, making fun of both the current state of politics and the idol industry. Instead this show is a straight idol anime with a tone-deaf take on politics in the current climate.
Not only did I thoroughly enjoy watching this one, it also has feminist merit! (Enjoy the feeling while it lasts, this may be it for a few months.)
Urara Meirocho is a great example of a show that could work really well for children… if it weren’t packed full of the sexualisation of children.
There is a very niche audience for Spiritpact, and it probably includes at least some people who loved Gravitation for Shuichi’s character.
There is a lot of overlap with Fuuka, another high school romance with a directionless protagonist and presenting women from a man’s point of view.